Model minority myth

In this dissertation, I examined the educational and life experiences of 13 first-generation Hmong women and how their lived experiences impacted their earlier education experiences as well as their post-secondary educational choices and their children’s educational pathways. Dr…

The majority of the Lao American population arrived in the United States after the end of the “American War in Southeast Asia” in 1975 as political refugees. Nevertheless, as Asian Americans, Lao Americans are also stereotyped to be the “model minority” and therefore do not face…

There has been a sharp rise in anti-Asian racism since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the speed and severity of it might have surprised some, this hate and xenophobia is not novel; anti-Asian sentiments have existed in the United States since the mid-19 th century, a…